Author: Kathy

Conservation Club Students Explore Masoala National Park

Many students from the FARAKA Conservation Club had officially given up hope of seeing one of Madagascar’s most reclusive lemurs– the red-ruffed lemur– when a distinctly auburn-colored movement drew their eyes to the trees above. At long last, they had spotted one of Madagascar’s most critically endangered animals, whose habitat is restricted to the forests of the Masoala Peninsula in…

About our Founder

Kathy West, has over 30 years of nationally recognized expertise in designing, implementing and teaching unique youth education programs for education organizations. She has successfully designed, illustrated and written children’s activity workbooks for science education, including for primate conservation. She has also conducted scientific field research with wild nonhuman primates as well as done extensive international travel.   A wildlife…

PICC in Masoala, Madagascar, 2021

Ambodiforaha students discovering a large “walking stick” PICC Session Feb. 2021. Photo by Pascal Elison. Returning to eager children and heavy rains in the village of Ambodiforaha, PICC teacher Pascal Elison came prepared with new learning materials and notebooks for the students that had participated in the July 2020 mini-PICC session. The focus of this new session was conservation issues; how the students…

Masoala Peninsula 2020

Ambodiforaha village, Madagascar Project update; July 13, 2020 In late June, 2020, as PICC Team member Pascal Elison headed out from Maroantsetra on the long ocean boat ride and hike to the village of Ambodiforaha, he was a little worried that the children would not want to participate in the PICC program or have any interest in the forest during…